NZ woman missing, presumed dead in flood

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, July 17 (UPI) -- A woman was missing and presumed dead Saturday following a landslide caused by rain in the New Zealand settlement of Bryan's Beach in the Bay of Plenty.

Beverley Mira Freeman, 67, was digging a drain at the rear of her Wagner Place property with her husband when a landslide came down, knocking their house off its foundations, the New Zealand Herald reported. Freeman's husband ran to safety.

The eastern Bay of Plenty was almost isolated from the rest of the North Island as heavy rain continued in the region.